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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tournament Starts Tonight For A-2 Subdistrict Title ' Fight for the District 6 A-2 southern division banner be gins tonight. Teams of thev sjibdistrict open their three evening tourney at the South ern Oregon college gym with of the seven aggregations involved in first round games. Z Winner in the Saturday eve ning championship final will eVigage Douglas high of Win ston in the play-off for the full district crown. I Glendale and Rogue River open today's festivities with 6:30 p.m. contention. Eagle Point and Henley clash at 7:45 p.m. and Brookings and Illinois Valley are 9 p.m. rivals. ; Phoenix as Rogue league champ earned a first round bye. It will meet the Glen dale-Rogue River victor at 7:45 p-.m. on Friday. Winners in this evenings other two hassles will be foes at 9 p.m. tomorrow. Friday's 6:30 p.m. ruckus will be a consolation game between the losers of tonight's Glendale-Rogue Riv er and Eagle Point-Henley combats. Four Top Contenders r Tangles for consolation prize and for third place pre cede the Saturday champion ship mix. : Phoenix, Glendale, Brook ings and Eagle Point loom as tfie main contenders for the Subdistrict mantle. The Phoe flix team is defending titlist But will have the jinx of the past two seasons to face. Rogue champions were beat en out in the division play-off tn both 1956 and 1957. In 1956 Crater (now A-l) tipped Phoenix and last year Phoe pix overcame Eagle Point, t Coach Jack Woodward has feported his Phoenix club eager for the tournament. The Pirates laid off three days last week. but have had a couple of good drills this week. Eagle Point is ambitious lb atone for the, loss to Phoe jix in the 1957 finale and Coach Tom Van Etten report Id that the Eagles are "as Sharp as they've ever looked." Z Possible starters for Glen Sale this evening are Ray and "om Munyon, Troy Reynolds, ill Hale and Cliff Worley. Tor Rogue River the crew KUBSKI NAMED Pittsburgs (ID Al Kub ski, veteran minor league player and manager, has been named manager of the Pitts burgh Pirates' new farm club at San Angelo, Tex., in the newly formed Sophomore League. Kubski, 38, is a na tive of Baltimore. Look. 149 DOWN Full Price 1497 including i i I e tional signals, elec tric wipers, heater, etc. Only r-T Si . v . Ml A2 -District could be Jon and Bob Bigman, Dave Carter, Joe Kirkley and Ed Johnson. Probable Eagle Point five are Bill Turner, Bill Hubbard, Wayne Christian, Ron Veach and Larry Smith. Brookings may open with Marv and Ron Bullock, Bill Workinger, Jerry Fox and Midwood and Illinois Valley with Doug Lewis, Dan Slana ker, Whitely, Grant Dickey and Mike Hanby. MedfordTribune Score Back Bullets for By UNITED PRESS Nine months ago, Herb Score lay in a darkened room in a Cleveland hospital, his baseball career threatened by a severely damaged right eye. Today he's back throwing bullets for thejndians at their spring training camp at Tuc son, Ariz., and looking ahead to pitching against the Kansas City Athletics in the opening game of the 1958 season. "I'll be ready if Manager Bobby Bragan wants me," the Brown Halts Echevarria In First Round in Cubes Havana 'IP) Lightweight Champion Joe Brown, un harmed by Cuban rebels or by southpaw Orlando Eche varria, happily considered his next defense of the 135-pound crown today, with his un beaten string of bouts stretch ed to 16 by Wednesday night s first-round knockout. Brown of New Orleans, floored Cuban Echevarria twice with straight rights to the chin for a knockout at 2:50 of the first round at the opening of Cuba's new $2, 000,000 Sports Palace, ringed by hundreds of police and at least a dozen prowl cars. Each of the estimated 10, 000 spectators had been "frisked" for weapons as he entered the palace, and the arena was studded with po lice, alerted . following the kidnaping Sunday' of auto raced Juan Manuel. Fangio. It was the first fight ever televised from "overseas" to the United States. Louisiana Joe, who weigh- See and Drive the Fabulous LLOYDWAGEN Up to 55 Miles Per Gallon COURTESY CHEVROLET 9th and Bartlett Phone SP 2-6115 The Direct from So. Oregon College Gym! For SPORTS it's RYJC . Your Mail Tribune Station TOiNIGHT . 6:30 p.m Glendale vs. Rogue River 7:45 p.m...... Eagle Point vs. Henley 9:00 p.m Illinois Valley vs. Brookings SATURDAY 9:30 Championship Game Thursday, February 27. 1S58 Referees for the series will be Dutch Meyer, Barney Riggs, Joe Zarosinski, Bill Esselstyn, Virgil Swanson and Leonard Warren. Shy Calla ghan and Wes Peters will be official scorekeepers, John Paisley timer and Wally Parmalee and Don Cattanach scoreboard operators. Rogue River and Illinois Valley bands will play to night and Eagle Point and Phoenix bands on Friday. Firing Tribe jubilant southpaw declared Wednesday after turning loose with an assortment of blazl -g fast balls and crackling curves. The husky blonde showed up early at the Indians' camp because he felt he had to work extra hard on his con trol. Now he's confident he can regain , the stuff that stamped him as one of base ball's leading strikeout artists before he was struck by a ball last May 7. ed lSSi pounds to Echevar ria's 136, and did not risk his title, said today his next defense might be made against third-ranking Ralph Dupas, also of New Orleans, "al though of course that's up to my manager." Echevarria, 27, tried to make a fight of it but was quickly outgunned. He tore across the ring and forced Brown into a corner with a wild barrage of hooks. But, 32-year-old Brown came out and, in an exchange, nailed Orlando with a right to the jaw that dropped him on his back for a count of eight. Echevarria rose; again rushed the fast-stepping cham pion about the ring and land ed a few hooks. Then Brown staggered him with a left-right to the face. He followed the woozy but still-game south paw and smashed him on the chin with another straight right. Echevarria fell on his back again and was counted out by Referee Johnny Cruz for the second kayo and 20th defeat in his career of 70 bouts. Brown, favored at 5-1, reg istered his 31st knockout and 69th victory in 94 bouts. WERNER INJURES KNEE s Innsbruck, Austria (IP) Bud Werner of Steamboat Springs, Colo., has suffered a severe knee injury while training for the Kandahar Race at St. Anton. According to reports received here, his leg has been placed in a cast and he will not be able to par ticipate in any further ski meets this season. Werner said he stumbled on a patch of new snow and fell. Louisiana produces enough oil every 10 days to pay the total costs of the Louisiana Durchase. 1230 on your dial TV Boxing Bout Ticket Sale Opens Tickets went on sale to day for the Medford thea ter telecast of the world middleweight title boxing bout between Carmen Ba silio and Sugar Ray Robin son. The telecast will be on March 25 at the Craterian theater through arrange ments with TelePrompTer. Inc. Robert Corbin, manager for Oregon-California Thea ters here, said that he had received many telephone calls concerning showing of the fight TV. There have been numerous mail orders for tickets. This is an indi cation of great interest in the fight and of a possible early sellout for the event. Ticket prices are same as for the TV presentation of the Basilio - Robinson mix last September, $4 for loge and center section seats and S2.S0 for other locations in the theater. There will be no home television. Idaho State Tips Pilots Pocatello, Idaho (IP! Ida ho State College outshot Uni versity of Portland through out a tight first half here Wednesday night to chalk up a 61-50 revenge victory over the Pilots. The victory, which made up for an earlier Pilot win, raised the Rocky Mountain conference titlists to a 20-3 season mark. Big Idaho State scorer was Leroy Bacher who pumped in 26 points from his center po sition. Guard .Lloyd Harris added 23.- Idaho State took an early four point lead, then saw Pi lots Dick Jolley and Bill Zapp each can two baskets to knot the contest and put the losers ahead. Portland led by as much as eight points in the first half before the Bengals regained the lead at halftime 32-28. Big Ray Scott, star Pilot freshman center, played only part of the game because of a back injury suffered against Gonzaga and scored only 4 points. Jim Armstrong led Portland scoring with 19. Jol ley had 11. owim PACIFIC LEAGUE Standings: w. L. Team Five 24 4 Eagles 18 10 Jacks Drive-Up 18 10 Haupert Tractor 13 15 Desert Service 12 'i 15 ',i Knight of Columbus 12 16 Prospect 7'i 20 '2 Team Six 7 21 Results: Team Five 4 (Sutton 497) 2316: Knight of Col. 0 (Denman 498) 2029. Eagles 4- (Parrish 543) 2356; Haupert Tractor 0 iFosbury 479) 213. Jack's 4 (Garrison 523) 2443; Team Six 0 (Brooks 509 1 8121 Desert Ser. 32 (Hadley 361) 2366; Prospect i.x (Houghton 477) 2185. High game M. Hadley 216. Split conv. M. Newland 5-7. COMMERCIAL LEAGUE Standings: w. L. Mail Tribune 18 'i 92 Cubby's Drivein 18 10 Patterson's Bakery 16 12 Quality Market 13 13 Bates Candy Co 15 , 13 Morning Fresh Bread .... 15 13 Alexander & Brown Ins. 14 14 Davis Transfer & Storage 12 'i I0V2 Star Body Works 8 20 Clave Construction 8 20 Results: 1 Davis 1 (Knapp 557) 2.450; Star Body 3 (Christianson 541) 2,549. Tribune 4 (Anderson 562) 2,519; Clave 0 (Allen 5051.2,258. Bates 2 (Garrett 541) 2,481; Pat terson 2 (Lenz 546) 2,489. M F Bread 1 (Spain 548) 2,411; A & B 3 (Speer 498) 21416. Quality 1 (Wise 531) 2,386; Cubby's. 3 (Meyers 576) 2,556. Turnabout Party Set at Domiciliary The annual recognition ceremony and turnabout par ty for volunteer workers at the Camp White veterans domiciliary will be held ' at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 28, in the theater. Manager E. K. Ricker will award certificates of approval to workers who have accumu lated 100, 300, 500 and 1,000 hours of volunteer service at the domiciliary. Approximate ly 150 persons are to receive the certificates. A turnabout program which follows will include entertain ment by members of the domiciliary. The center has approxi mately 350 regular volunteers who assist with recreational work, personal services and entertainment. Approximate ly 1,000 others come on spec ial occasions, Ricker reported. Twenty-two local organiza tions work with the volunteer program. All volunteers and friends are invited to the program, he said. BRAZILIAN, 130. DIES San Carlos, Brazil (W Roque Jose Florencio, who claimed to be 130 years old, died in a local hospital Wednesday. Jinx Faced In Tourney Baton Rouge, La. If" De fending champion Jimmy De maret was fighting a local jinx at the Baton Rouge Country club today as he teed off on the first round of the $15,000 Baton Rouge Open; no golfer has repeated as win ner of the tournament. However, the weather seemed to favor the smiling golfer from Houston, as a field of 152 moved out on the tough par-72 course. Demaret sometimes plays his best under adverse weather condi tions. Three other former Baton Rouge companions Bob Tos ki, Jackie Burke Jr., and Bo Wininger are also in the field. Gallery favorites this year include Ken Venturi, Ed (Porky) Oliver, Peter Thomp son (last year's runner-up to Demaret), Lloyd Mangrum, and the local favorite Lionel Hebert. Hoad Gets Nod In Long Match Odessa, Tex. (IP) Lew Hoad ended Pancho Gonzales' "comeback attempt" at one match Wednesday night, beat ing the pro king 22-20, 10-8 in a gruelling 2 hour and 13 minute match. The win. for Hoad ended Pancho's claim he was on a "comeback" following his easy victory at Dallas Mon day night, and gave the Aus sie a 17-9 lead in their 100 match world's pro champion ship tour. Insanity Plea Seen In Defense of Young Stanford Murderer San Jose, Calif. HP) The attorney for William Wallace Cordry III said today he ex pected to enter an insanity plea in the court defense of the 19-year-old "urge" slayer of a pretty blonde teen-ager. Cordry, a Stanford sopho more and model of a clean cut American youth, "guessed" the reason he shot and killed 17-year-old Deena Bonn with a .22 rifle was "sexual." He had known her only casually. "I just had to shoot some girl and then rape her," he said. "But I didn't rape Deena. I couldn't." Alan A. Lindsay, Oakland attorney hired by Cordry's wealthy father, said he "prob ably" would plead the young tennis star "not guilty and not guilty by reason of in sanity." Murder Charge Filed A formal charge of murder was to be filed in Palo Alto Municipal Court today, but Cordry probably will not be arraigned until Monday. The Santa Clara County District Attorney's office plan ned to name a team of psy chiatrists late today to ex amine young Cordry. Attor ney Lindsay also planned to use psychiatrists in his de fense as the case appeared headed for a court battle over the youth's sanity. Members of the district at torney's office said the boy appeared sane, and that the murder was premeditated. Lindsay said, "the boy was in an emotional condition when I talked to him yester day. He was . . . detached from reality." Slain on Campus The shooting took place Tuesday night shortly after 10 o'clock in a remote part of the Stanford campus. Young Cordry bought the rifle, then spent the whole day looking for some woman any woman to kill and rape.- Late that night, he settled on Deena, the girl across the street. A popular senior and an honor student at Cubberly High school, she had the repu- Disease Combatting Topic at Meeting ReDresentatives of the Med ford pear growing industry discussing methods for com batting fireblight disease at a meeting here this week. Dr. George Koch of Charles Pfizer and Company, Inc., presented the latest research information on Agri-mycin for use in control of plan diseases. C. B. Cordy, county agent in charge of horticulture, re viewed Dear sDray recommen dations, advising the use of at least two blossom spray antibiotic applications. Lee R. Ha: sen, manager of the agricultural chemical di vision of L. H. Butcher comr pany. Portland, and W. B. Radey of the company, spon sored the meetings. They re ported that the company has established a warehouse in Medford to carry a complete line of agricultural chemicals. Elk Trapping Attempt Futile Near Coos Bay Portland "Too hard to hold" aptly describes the game commission's futile elk trapping attempt last Thurs day of a band of 18 elk which have been harassing residents along the Millicoma river near Allegany about 20 miles from Coos Bay. Although seven elk were successfully corralled within the rope-mesh enclosure, the big animals went berserk, broke a quarter-inch steel cable fastened to the bottom of the ten-foot corral posts which held the webbing to the ground, then fought their way to freedom under the net through the small hole cre ated. The band of elk have taken up permanent residency in about a two-mile stretch of pasture land along the valley floor. The adjacent hillsides are cutover lands growing up in brush and second growth fir. Quite tame, the elk graze and bed down in the fields within a stone's throw of dwellings. Housewives are often startled to find several peering into Tcitchen or liv- ing room windows. On several occasions housewives and children have been forced to beat a hasty retreat when threatened by the marauding animals. Dogs are attacked on sight. Residents of the area are reluctant to hav the animals killed, preferring to have them removed from the area alive if possible. Trapping at tempts will continue until successful or until the ani mals refuse to enter the trap. tation for being a nice and helpful girl. When young Cordry asked her to drive him to the rail road station in his car she said she'd be glad to. But first Cordry asked her to drive to the ROTC armory because he said he had to return the rifle. At the arm ory, Miss Bonn braked the car to a stop. Cordry picked up the rifle and fired the fatal shot at her head. Informed .Officers Then Cordry drove to the Palo Alto police station and calmly informed officers he had shot and killed the girl. Hours of questioning elicited no more from him than that he was the victim of an "urge" so powerful that he was powerless to resist it. District Attorney Louis Bergna insisted the case add ed up to first degree murder. "I have reviewed all the evidence we have and it ap pears to be a case of pre mediated murder," Bergna said. Educators Attend Portland Meeting Five Jackson county edu cators attended a regional conference on instruction last week end in Portland, spon sored by the National Educa tion association in cooperation with the Oregon and Wash ington Education associations. Attending from here were Mrs. Leigh Gustafson, Miss Anna Honts and Kenneth Niv ens, Medford, and Mrs. Gun ver i Clute and Miss , Veda Scripter, Ashland. Speakers at the conference, which was attended by about 400 educators, included Gov. Robert D. Holmes and Dr. Ralph W. Tyler, Stanford uni versity. Dr. Tyler listed nine essen tials for effective learning for students. They are motiva tion, teaching guidance, lis tening time, observation and practice, satisfaction and dis satisfaction, sequential prac tice, relatively high standards of performance, discovery of performance compared with standards, and discovery that previous ways of reacting are unsatisfactory. The edu c a t o r s generally agreed they could not over stress the need for parent teacher conference on all levels of teaching. The automobile industry consumes about 65 per cent of all the upholstery leather produced in the U. S. r Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues, Drain Til 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 hunting & Fishing Southern Oregon By MEL With disturbing frequency we read of "unloaded gun" accidents around the country. Strangely enough these acci dents are not limited to any one age group or class. The guns range from the most modern to ancient antiques. In each and every case the basic reason for them is the same Carelessness!!! I recall vividly a day long ago when my father gave me a real old fashioned lickin' be cause I pointed a wooden gun at a playmate and said, "Bang!" At the moment it was a bit difficult for me to un derstand but he explained that as I grew older I would handle the guns that he kept around the house and he didn't want any accidents. 'If," he said, "you don't get into the habit of pointing any gun, not even a wooden one, at people you will never have an accident." CRINGES AT BANGING I feel lhat this was on of the most important les sons I learned as a child. I cringe today as I sse chil dren "banging" and "rat-a-tat-ting" at each other everywhere I go. I realize that they are engaging in childish sports but the fa miliarity of pointing a gun, even a play one, at a play mate makes it mighty easy to do the same thing in fun of course, when handling the real thing. The worst part of this premise is that the daily papers bear me out in this by these sense less accidents. SUBVERSIVE ELEMENTS In almost every legislature there are bills introduced to curb these accidents by lim iting tjje possession and use of firearms. Some well mean ing folks even go so far as to think that if we can limit the sale and possession of fire arms we can curb crime. Nothing could be farther from the truth as is borne out by the sad experience in .Eng land. Guns in the hands of citi zens made America strong and those same guns in the hands of those same citizens will keep America free and strong. There are subversive elements in our midst who would like nothing better than to disarm the law abid ing citizen, for then they could have a free rein without fear of reprisal. JUNIOR PROGRAMS .Obviously legislation is not the answer, for this would destroy our rights as guaranteed by the constitu tion. The only answer is ed ucation and I am happy to report that here in southern Oregon there are many live programs designed to do just that. Very briefly her are some examples. In both of Medford's jun ior high school there is a hunters' training program and I understand that on completion of the pre scribed course a certificate is issued. The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Medford Ri fle club each have junior rifle training programs. VFW instructors also train a group at Gold Hill. Phoe nix Gun club has a junior program as has Ashland Rifle club. In Grants Pass the city recreation department has had a junior rifle training and safety program for the past thre years and the Helicopters Downed Near Wolf Creek Wolf Creek IP) Eighteen crewmen in six helicopters en route from Ft. Riley, Kan., to Ft. Lewis,. Wash., were forced down by fog in a field two miles north of here Wednesday night. Six crewmen were killed when three helicopters mak ing the same flight crashed last Saturday in the Sierra foothills 10 miles southeast of Red Bluff, Calif., in heavy fog. The 18 crewmen put up for the night at the Stagecoach Motel at Wolf Creek, which is some 24 miles north of Grants Pass on Highway 99. They planned to continue on to Ft. Lewis this morning. KENTAILS t L0ORTS REE$ present class has 120 en trants. The prime object of these clubs is to teach safety, both on the target range and in the field. Believe me when I say thai after a young ster has completed one of these courses he knows the proper way to handle a gun. MOTHER CHANGES VIEW Some time ago I heard a mother say that she didn't want her boy to join because she was afraid of guns. When it was pointed out to her that whether the boy joined or not she could be sure that some day he would come in contact with guns and prob ably at the home of a neigh bor where she wouldn't be present to urge caution, she readily changed her view point. It is interesting to note that among the hundreds of thou sands of shooters, both rifle and pistol, who have shot millions of rounds of ammu nition on National Rifle as sociation ranges, there has never been a fatal accident to date. PREACH SAFETY Whenever I hear some sob sister or brother, yell ing lhat we ought to get rid of the guns because of the accidents, I think of the ac cidents caused by automo biles, stepladders, bathtubs, boats and jackknives, but to date I haven't heard of any bills lhat proposed ban ning them. Let's keep our outdoor hunting free from restric tions but lets learn and prac tice and preach 'safety and remember that the only safe gun is one that it handled like it was loaded with the hammer back or the safety offl ' HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE By United Press The Montreal Canadiens, denied , a chance to back into the National Hockey league regular season championship, will attempt to get the job done themselves tonight when they meet the Toronto Maple Leafs at Montreal. A Montreal victory against the Maple Leafs will give the Canadiens an IIV2 game lead and the pennant, for the second-place New York Rangers now have only 11 games to play. The Canadiens missed a chance to back in Wednesday night when the Rangers downed the Chicago Black Hawks, 4-3, at New York. AMERICAN' LEAGUE By United Press The Providence Reds, with their fine group of rookies producing again, are rolling toward the American Hockey league playoffs under a full head of steam. ' The Reds downed Buffalo, 5-3, in Wednesday night's only game for their fifth straight win. Rookie Ted Hampson countered twice and rookie Bruce Carmlchael tallied an other for the winners. Providence, in winning, in creased its third place mar gin over Springfield to seven points. The Reds are 10 points behind Cleveland and Her shey, who are tied for the league lead. 1 7irc$fonc 2T4 South Riverside Ave. Phone SP 2-7119 East Main rf. IP St t CD If 3ff . . KJ KJ KJ ISLn I 1 226 I i BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY COLLEGE GAMES By United Press (East) Fordham 92, Army 76 CCNY 60 Rider 58 Niagara 65. Buffalo 53 St. Joseph (Pa.) 82. La Salle 77 (South) Maryland 56, Georgetown (DC) 48 Xavier (O.) 100, Western Kv. 91 Tenn. Tech 66. Morehead St. 63 W & L 81. Geo. Washington 70 Lehigh 66, Delaware 53 Louisville 73, Depaul 55 (Midwest) E wL. Green 75, Western Mich. 58 Cincinnati 91, St. Louis 73 (Southwest) Oklahoma City 84, Regis 69 Ariz. (Tempe) 91, Ariz. 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